In Other News…

• The National Bank of Romania has issued a new 20 lei banknote. It is intended to fill the gap between the 10 and 50 lei notes, and to honour a woman for the first time on a circulating note – Ecaterina Teodoroiu, a heroine of World War I.

In common with the other Romanian notes, the 20 lei is produced on GUARDIAN® polymer and printed by the state printworks. It features a complex window design, with a gold METALIX™ trumpet, a Shadow Image featuring the portrait and the BNR logo, a MAGREAD™ thread and, on the reverse, an IRISwitch™ stripe.

Coinciding with the launch of the new 20 lei, the Bank has also produced a limited edition polymer replica of the 20 lei of 1881 for the collectors market. This note contains two windows in place of the watermarks in the original – both printed with CCL’s VIVID™ Colour.